The film reveals a previously unknown story of British and American governments secretly expelling the entire population of the Chagos islands in the 1960s and 70s. The goal was to hand over the main island, Diego Garcia, to the US for a major military base, which has since been used to launch airstrikes on Afghanistan and Iraq.
Stealing a Nation
A true story of a historic deception, where British and American officials secretly coerced the evacuation of the entire population from the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean during the 1960s and 1970s.
